Deputy Director, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Dr. Klaus Ceynowa is the Deputy Director General of the Bavarian State Library at Munich, Germany. His main fields of work are strategic and financial planning, human resources management, and controlling and marketing for libraries in the digital age.

He was responsible for negotiating the contract between the Bavarian State Library and Google about the digitization of the complete copyright-free collections of the Library from the 17^th to the 19^th century, which is more than 1 Million books.

He is deeply engaged in all innovative projects of the Bavarian State Library, e.g. 3D-Internet applications, ScanRobotics, technologies for long term digital preservation, Linked Open Data, gesture-based computing, and Mobile Applications as well as Augmented Reality tools and Location-Based-Services for libraries.

Fellow, Harvard University

Jean-Baptiste Michel is a French and Mauritian scientist at Harvard University. His research, which tackles quantitative problems at the interface of biology, mathematics and the social sciences. Jean-Baptiste was recently named a TED 2012 Fellow. He is an Engineer of Ecole Polytechnique, and received an MS in Applied Math and a PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard. 

Together, Jean-Baptiste and Erez Lieberman Aiden develop quantitative approaches to the study of history and culture that relies on computational analysis of a significant fraction of the historical record, an approach they call culturomics. Their work led to the creation of the Google Ngram Viewer, a website for browsing cultural trends that was visited over a million times in the 24 hours after its launch. Their research has been featured on the covers of Nature and Science and on the front page of the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal. They also founded Harvard's Cultural Observatory, where they lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers. 

Senior Program Officer

Roy Tennant is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. His books include Technology in Libraries: Essays in Honor of Anne Grodzins Lipow (2008),  Managing the Digital Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial (1996) and Crossing the Internet Threshold: An instructional Handbook (1993). Roy wrote a monthly column on digital libraries forLibrary Journal (1997–2007) and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association’s LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.

Roy is a well-known and sought-after speaker on topics such as library research, the future of cataloging and digital libraries and how technology impacts librarianship.

Global Council, OCLC

Raymond Bérard is currently Director of the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education (ABES), which is in charge of the union catalog for French academic libraries. ABES also licenses e-resources for French universities and research organizations and develops innovative services to meet the information needs of the French academic community. 

Raymond Bérard previously held several positions in public and academic libraries, both in France and abroad. He is a member of OCLC Global Council and a director of CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries). He chaired IFLA’s Management and Marketing Section (2009-2011) and the Information section of the French Standards authority (AFNOR) (2008-2011).

Jean Bernon is in charge of the ABES study aimed to acquire a shared next generation ILS on behalf of French academic libraries. He previously held several positions in public and academic libraries. He worked during six years (1990-1995) in an ILS company as project manager of many French libraries. For the last ten years he was Library Director of University Jean Moulin Lyon 3.

Director, Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek

She has worked for the Swiss National Library since 1991 and has held a number of management positions, including serving as the Vice Director from 2003 to 2005.

At the international level, she represents the NL at the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) of which she is the Vice-Chair since October 2011. From 2008 to 2011 she was a member of The European Library Management Committee. From August 2012 onwards she is also Vice-Chair of the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL).

Marie-Christine Doffey also represents the Swiss National Library in a number of bodies in Switzerland, such as Memoriav (Association for the preservation of Swiss audio-visual cultural property; vice-chair), the Foundation Council of the Swiss National Sound Archives (vice-chair), the Foundation Council of Graphica Helvetica, the Foundation Council of the Swiss office of RISM, Répertoire international des sources musicales, the Conference of Swiss University Libraries and the Association of the Swiss cantonal Libraries (Committee).

She holds a degree in Antiquity Studies from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and a Master of Advanced Studies in Arts Management from the University of Basel. 

Product Manager, OCLC

Annette Dortmund, Product Manager, has a varied background in library automation including customer support, project management, sales and business development as well as product management. She worked with libraries of all sizes including large academic, public and governmental institutions. Her current focus is on library management systems and the European roll-out of OCLC Web-scale Management Services.

Annette graduated from Mainz University with a master (M.A.) in book sciences, latin philology and comparative literature, and gained a PhD in 1998. She has been working for OCLC Germany since 2001.

Executive Director, WorldCat Global Metadata Network

Ted directs three different components of OCLC's metadata services: The Batch Services group coordinates the loading and ongoing synchronization of thousands of library catalogues with WorldCat. The WorldCat Registry group provides coordination and stewardship for the WorldCat Registry of data about the world's libraries. Finally, the WorldCat knowledge base team manages the growth and quality of the WorldCat knowledge base of licensed electronic resources. That team is currently engaged in a project to integrate the knowledge base with WorldCat and to provide expanded metadata management of licensed electronic resources.

Ted brings more than a decade of experience in the integrated library system industry to his role as Director of the WorldCat Global Metadata Network. He has presented and published articles on such diverse library system topics such as electronic resource management systems and standards for the exchange of ILS-related data. Ted has participated in a number of standards-related activities, including the NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party on the Exchange of Serials Subscription Data and the NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative.

Prior to joining OCLC, Ted was a senior product manager and director of customer service at Innovative Interfaces, and before that worked in academic libraries doing acquisitions, cataloguing and reference work. He received his MLS from Syracuse University in 1996.

Software Engineer, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Dr. Markus M. Geipel studied Computer Science at Technische Universität München (University of Technology, Munich) and the University of Texas at Austin. After graduating from Technische Universität München with highest distinction, he earned a doctorate from ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). He joined the German National Library in 2011 and currently works on the Culturegraph project as well as the German Digital Library (DDB).

Director Community Relations, OCLC

Chrystie is a librarian, writer, and community-builder. After working in special, academic and public libraries, she started It Girl Consulting, a small venture that helps libraries enhance their services to meet current community needs. In 2003 Chrystie joined OCLC where she now serves as Community Relations director, and leads a team that designs innovative programs that reinforce libraries (including WebJunction, a learning community for public library staff). Chrystie is a frequent presenter at international library meetings and conferences, and her articles have appeared in JASIST, Library Journal, American Libraries, and RUSQ. In 2007, Chrystie was named a Library Journal “Mover and Shaker” and Inside, Outside, and Online: building your library community was published by ALA Editions in 2009.

Chrystie currently serves as an advisor to the Communities Connect Network and as a strategic advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries program. Chrystie’s undergraduate degree is in Biology and Psychology, she holds a Master of Arts in History from Sarah Lawrence College, and her MLIS is from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she lives in a tiny loft with her growing family. You can follow her blog at the Libraries Build Communities site. 

Head, Frankfurt City Library

As the head of Frankfurt’s city library, the largest public library in the state of Hesse, Dr. Sabine Homilius, manages and coordinates the work of its headquarters, the youth library, 18 branches, two bookmobiles as well as 85 school libraries, attracting an audience of 1.5 million in 2011 alone. The Frankfurt city library plays a key role in integrating minorities.

On a national level, members of staff work in commissions of the German Library Association for Intercultural Library Work, Libraries and Schools, Management and Mobile Libraries.  Dr. Homilius herself is a member of the Management Commission of German Library Association. Her special interest is in Human Ressources, Change Management and Leadership Training.

Account Manager, OCLC UK

Russ Hunt has been with OCLC for 14 years in a variety of departments. Working his way through network support, product support and product management he is now UK Account Manager for Public, Special and Health libraries along with being EMEA Product Specialist for CONTENTdm.

Data Services Manager, University of Warwick Library

Stuart Hunt is Data Services and Digital Production Manager at the University of Warwick Library where he is responsible for metadata services and digitisation.  He was managed several digitisation projects and was project manager of the JISC-funded Exposing Marandet project.  Stuart has over 20 years library experience and has worked in academic, business, and government libraries as well as the library systems industry.  His professional activities include Chair of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group, and memberships of the CILIP/British Library Committee on RDA, the RLUK Shared Cataloguing Group, and the OCLC Collections and Technical Services Advisory Committee.

OCLC President and Chief Executive Officer

Jay is the fourth president in OCLC's 43-year history. He came to OCLC in May 1998 after a 24-year career with Information Handling Services, an international publisher of databases, where he held a series of key positions in top management, including President of IHS Engineering. Prior to joining IHS, Jay held positions with the 3M Corporation in Europe and the United States.

Jay is active in professional organizations, including the American Library Association and the Special Libraries Association. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration, serves on the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) Board of Visitors for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a board member of the Governing Board for Publishing of the American Chemical Society.

In Columbus, Ohio, Jay is a member of the boards of the Children's Research Institute, Nationwide Children's Hospital and TechColumbus. He has served as a Campaign Cabinet member of the United Way of Franklin County.

Jay graduated from Colgate University in 1965 with a B.A. in English literature and served as a U.S. Army officer in Germany. He has spent more than seven years living and working outside the United States.

Community Coordinator, OCLC

Max Klein is OCLC Research's Wikipedian in Residence. He is working as community coordinator to explore and pursue mutually beneficial projects between OCLC, library stakeholders, and the Wikipedia community. He is primarily focused on two goals: working with OCLC staff and libraries to help foster a broader understanding of Wikipedia's practices, and launching an inquiry into what technological integration is possible both technically and politically. Max has a BA in Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley.

Managing Director EMEA, OCLC

Eric joined OCLC as Director of Operations & Services EMEA in March 2007 and was appointed Managing Director OCLC EMEA in January 2011. Prior to joining OCLC, Eric was Managing Director of Infor's global library systems division (formerly known as Geac Library Systems).

He has worked in the library information systems industry for more than 20 years in several positions, including consulting, sales, marketing and senior management.

Eric has a degree in librarianship and documentation and a master of science in business administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Curator, Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Rémi Mathis serves as the President of Wikimedia France. He is an active member of the free culture movement and advocates against the privatization of the digitization of public domain works. He is also curator for the 17th century collections at the Department of Prints and Photographs of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the editor of the library's Nouvelles de l'estampe – a scholarly journal on etching, engraving and lithography. Rémi has a degree of History from the École Nationale des Chartres, Paris.

Project Manager Tilburg University

Jola is project manager at Tilburg University, Library and IT Services. She currently manages the project ‘WMS implementation Tilburg University'. The project aims to implement OCLC’s WorldShare Management Services and WorldCat Local at Tilburg University.

Jola is educated as a librarian. She started her career as subject specialist in computer science at Tilburg University library. She subsequently worked as head of the computer science documentation centre, head of fee-based information services, and PR and communications manager in that library. In 1995, she became manager at Ticer, a private consultancy company owned by Tilburg University, later part of Library and IT Services. Until 2010, she organized the Ticer International Summer School on Digital Libraries and is pleased and honoured to be a lecturer at the summer school this year.

Head of the Digital Production Centre, Wageningen UR Library

Jacquelijn Ringersma holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and is currently the head of the Digital production center of the Library of the Wageningen University and Research Centre. The team is responsible for the data quality of the institute repository, which contains all Wageningen UR research output (both publications and primary research data). We create and manage the library catalogue and the Wageningen Documentation content collection, which we outlet to several thematic knowledge portals for education purposes.

To summarize we are about metadata: we create them, we manage them, we harvest and let harvest and we manage the metadata content systems. In 2012 we purchased ContentDm as the primary CMS for Digital Image and Video collections, which will hold o.a the Institute Special Collection image collections.  

Product Manager, OCLC

Elisabeth Robinson is a chartered librarian with experience in  both public and academic libraries. She moved to OCLC UK (and previously FDI) in 1996, and has worked in Sales and Account Management, Implementations and Project Management.   She is now a Product Manager with responsibility for library management systems, WMS roll-out in the UK and Ireland as well as FABLibraries, the UK Public Library Catalogue.

Director for Adjunct, IE  Library, Madrid

Henar Silvestre is the Director for Adjunct and Responsible for Virtual Library of IE Library. IE is an international institution dedicated to educating business leaders through programs based on a core values of global focus, entrepreneurial spirit and a humanistic approach.

Henar holds a degree in Library and Information Science from University Carlos III (Madrid) and a Master in Libraries and Digital information Services, also from University Carlos III (Madrid). After some years of experience in other libraries, The Spanish National Library, Ministry of Education Library or Carlos III University Library, she joined IE Library in 2010. With a technological background, she is responsible for the access to electronic resources. Henar is also coordinating the Social Media channels at IE Library.

Henar is IE´s Project Manager in the WMS implementation project. IE Library becomes the first library in Spain, the first Business School library in Europe, and will be among the first libraries in Europe to employ the latest technological advances for library management services with OCLC WorldShare Management Services.

Technology Evangelist, OCLC

Richard Wallis, distinguished thought leader in Semantic Web and Linked Data technology, joined OCLC in 2012 as Technology Evangelist.

Richard has been at the forefront of emerging Web and Semantic Web technologies in the wider information world for over 20 years. He is an active blogger, and was a regular podcaster in the "Talking with Talis" series. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and chaired "Library 2.0 Gang," a monthly round-table podcast series that brought together thought leaders, movers and shakers, and executives from leading organisations in library technology.

Richard most recently had been with Talis, a Linked Data and Semantic Web technology organisation in the United Kingdom. He is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Research Scientist, OCLC

Shenghui Wang is a research scientist at OCLC Research and is based in Leiden. Her current research activities include text and data mining work as well as linked data investigations. Shenghui has been conducting research in the broad field of Artificial Intelligence with interests ranging from cognitive modelling, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language semantics and machine learning.  Shenghui earned her Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, UK.

Head of Library Academic Liaison

Ben Wynne is Head of Library Academic Liaison at the University of Leicester in the UK.  The University, which has over 22,000 students, is in the top 20 of UK university league tables and has a strong track record in both teaching and research.

A completely refurbished and extended University Library building was opened in 2008 and since then has received many awards.  The Library service achieved the UK’s Customer Service Excellence award in 2010 and the Times Higher Education Supplement’s award for outstanding library team in 2012.

Ben has led two JISC funded digitisation projects within the last two years – both of which have used CONTENTdm.  The first created the My Leicestershire History archive of primary historical sources relating to Leicester and Leicestershire in partnership with a number of local history and other heritage organisations.  The second – Manufacturing Pasts – is creating reusable, copyright cleared learning resources which draw on digitised historical sources to illustrate themes in recent British industrial history such as the social organisation of the factory and de-industrialisation.

Managing Director, OCLC Germany

Norbert has been involved with the IT automation of libraries for almost three decades and since 2005 has been the General Manager of the German division of OCLC.  He is also one of OCLC’s portfolio Director’s and responsible for the development of library management systems.

Senior Program Officer, OCLC

Titia van der Werf is a Senior Program Officer in OCLC Research based in OCLC's Leiden office. Titia coordinates and extends OCLC Research work throughout Europe and has special responsibilities for interactions with OCLC Research Library Partners. She represents OCLC in European and international library and cultural heritage venues. 

Prior to joining OCLC Research in January 2012, Titia was the deputy director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, responsible for collections and digital infrastructure.

Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees

Sandy Yee has served as Dean of the University Libraries and the Library and Information Science Program at Wayne State University since May 2001. Prior to joining Wayne State, Sandy spent 19 years at Eastern Michigan University in various library administrative roles including professor and associate dean. She also has experience in community college, high school and junior high school libraries.

Sandy joined the OCLC Board of Trustees in November 2008 after her election by OCLC Members Council in May 2008. She served as President of Members Council during its 2007-2008 session.

Currently, Sandy serves on the ARL Board of Directors. In addition to her previous service on OCLC Members Council (2001-2008) Sandy has served on numerous committees of the Association of College & Research Libraries including the Budget and Finance Committee. She has been an active member of the Michigan Library Association (MLA), serving as its president, treasurer, and academic division chair; and in 1999, she was named MLA's Librarian of Year. She also serves on the Detroit Public Library Friends Foundation Board.

Sandy presents and publishes on a variety of topics relating to academic libraries including instruction, outreach and digital projects. She is also actively engaged in Library and Information Science education activities.